Of Friends, Enemies and Neighbours: Political Theology and the Ethics of Alterity in Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
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25 mars 2022
- doi: 10.4000/books.pulm.9860
- isbn: 9782367810201
- eisbn: 9782367813899
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Sweet oranges Orange Citrus sinensis Common oranges Orange tree Pomology Fruits Moral philosophy Science, Moral Morals Ethics, Primitive Philosophy, Moral Morality Deontology Ethology Moral ideas Religion and ethics Biography--Character Knowledge--Ethics moraleCiter ce document
Susana Onega, « Of Friends, Enemies and Neighbours: Political Theology and the Ethics of Alterity in Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit », Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, ID : 10.4000/books.pulm.9860
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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit was first published in 1985 by Pandora Press, a small imprint launched by Routledge and Kegan Paul in response to the growing demand for women’s books by feminist activism. This fact forcefully conditioned the reception of Winterson’s first novel. Its reviewers described it as a heavily autobiographical Bildungsroman representing the process of individuation of a lesbian heroine at odds with the roles allotted to her by her family and religious community. After ...